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“Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out….” Matthew 10:1

“In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 18:18

Did you know that the famous 1973 movie “The Exorcist” was based on a real-life case of a successful exorcism? But instead of a young girl, played by Linda Blair in the movie, in real life it was a 13-year-old boy who became demonically possessed.

I’ve always wondered what happened to that boy. Thanks to an account by Pat McGonigle for KSDK5 in St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 30, 2012, we now know. Here’s McGonigle’s report:

It’s one of the biggest questions about the most well documented cases of an exorcism in U.S. history.

What ever happened to the 13-year-old boy at the center of the exorcism performed by Jesuits at Saint Louis University?

The story was the basis for the best-selling book and blockbuster horror movie, “The Exorcist.”

With a few rare exceptions, the boy’s identity has remained a closely guarded secret for decades.

“He’s still alive,” said David Waide, SLU archivist.

In almost all of the accounts of the famous case, the boy is referred to as “Robbie.”

Robbie’s ordeal began at his home in Maryland in 1949. Bizarre, unexplained things started happening in Robbie’s home, up to and including marks and welts on his body.

Robbie’s parents came to St. Louis to stay with relatives, partially in hopes that a change of scenery would stop the unexplained activities.

It didn’t help.

One of Robbie’s cousins was a student at St. Louis University at the time. She relayed accounts of Robbie’s ordeal to Jesuits at SLU.

Eventually, Fr. William Bowdern, S.J. led the exorcism with the help of Fr. Raymond Bishop and Fr. Walter Halloran, among others.

The ordeal ended at a now-demolished wing of the Alexian Brothers Hospital in south St. Louis.

It’s believed Robbie would be 77 today.

“He’s had several children,” Waide said. “He’s moved back to the Washington D.C. area. He was non-Catholic, Lutheran nominally, but he became a Catholic. He was baptized during this whole episode.“

It’s been reported that Robbie named a son Michael. In the exorcism records, Robby tells the priests he was saved by St. Michael the Archangel.

Robbie returned to St. Louis two years after his ordeal ended in 1949.

In a priest’s diary about the exorcism, this is the final footnote entry on page 29:

“Follow up: August 19, 1951. R and his father and mother visited the Brothers. R, now 16 is a fine young man. His father and mother also became Catholic, having received their first Holy Communion on Christmas Day, 1950.”

In 1993, Thomas B. Allen wrote a book on the real life exorcism of “Robbie.” Titled Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, the book is based on the diary kept by a Jesuit priest who assisted Father Bowdern in the exorcism. One big difference between the movie and the book is that in the book, “Robbie” identified St. Michael the Archangel as playing a pivotal role, by the power of God, in the eventual expulsion of the demon.

WARNING: When I first saw the pictures that you’ll see below, I felt sick to my stomach. It wasn’t a physical sickness but a spiritual sense of such palpable evil that my soul felt ill. Say a prayer for God’s protection before you read further. I recommend the powerful Prayer to St. Michael, HERE.

Anyone who’s been on the Internet cannot avoid coming across dark warnings about the Illuminati — a purported conspiratorial organization that acts as a shadowy “power behind the throne” or “the power that be” (TPTB), a modern incarnation or continuation of the Enlightenment-era Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society founded on May 1, 1776. It is said that the Illuminati are the masterminds who actually control world affairs through governments and corporations, eventuating in the establishment of a one-world government — the New World Order.

The Rothschild family (known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds) is a European family of German [Ashkenazi] Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century. Five lines of the Austrian branch of the family were elevated into the Austrian nobility, being given hereditary baronies of the Habsburg Empire by Emperor Francis II in 1816. The British branch of the family was elevated into the British nobility at the request of Queen Victoria. It has been argued that during the 19th century, the family possessed by far the largest private fortune in the world, and by far the largest fortune in modern history.

Frederick Morton, in his 1962 book, The Rothschilds, gave an estimate of the Rothschild wealth at over $6 billion in 1850. The blogger who calls himself Markus Angelicus (the Angel Mark, most certainly a pseudonymous nom de plume) estimates that taking $6 billion (and assuming no erosion of the wealth base) and compounding that figure at various returns on investment (a conservative range of 4% to 8%) would suggest the following net worth of the Rothschild family enterprise, as of 1997:

$1.9 trillion (@4%)

$7.8 trillion (@5%)

$31.5 trillion (@6%)

$125,189.1 trillion (@7%)

$491,409 trillion (@8%)

Some claim the Illuminati to be mainly if not wholly Jewish. Others, such as Henry Makow (who is a Jew), identify the Illuminati not with a particular racial or ethnic group but by their common spiritual perversity — Satanism. In Makow’s words:

The Illuminati consist of…some of the world’s richest families including the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers and the Windsors. While they pay lip service to religion, they worship Lucifer. Their agents control the world’s media, education, business and politics. These agents may think they are only pursuing success, but success literally means serving the devil. Prisoners of their wealth, the Illuminati prefer hatred and destruction to Love. Understandably, they can’t go public with this. They pretend to be moral while working behind the scenes to degrade and enslave humanity in a “new world order.”

At this point you’re probably rolling your eyes and making the “ding-ding ding-ding ding-ding” Twilight Zone sound. Admittedly, while this mother of all conspiracy theories makes for interesting reading, I’d always retained my skepticism.

For one, conspiracy theories by their very nature are difficult, if not impossible, to prove/verify or disconfirm — “It’s secret ’cause it’s a conspiracy!” If you ask a conspiracy theorist (CT), “If it’s such a conspiracy, then how do you know all this?”, the CT either says “I just know” or “Well, TPTB leak clues and leave hints of their plans because they are so arrogant and cocky.” If you bring up a counter-argument such as “But how do you account for there being these powerful wealthy groups that don’t agree with each other?,” the CT replies, “You see, there are contending factions within TPTB.” And so on and so forth. In other words, the CT is always right no matter what, which makes the Illuminati conspiracy theory air- and water-tight, impervious to counter-evidence or counter-arguments.

The flawed epistemology of conspiracy theories such as the one about the Illuminati makes me all the more skeptical until I saw pictures of a Rothschild — the Baroness Philippine de Rothschild — in an article on Makow’s website.

Rothschild entered her father’s wine business in the late 1970s. When Philippe died in 1988, Philippine inherited three winery estates in Bordeaux. At the time of her father’s death, the company sold 1.3 million cases of wine a year. By 2000, sales had almost doubled to 2.1 million cases. In 1999, sales amounted to around $155 million. Her personal wealth has been estimated at €190 million by Le Nouvel Economiste.

Below are photos of the Baroness. Note that in every picture she wears a heavy chainlinked gold necklace with a pendant. The pendant in the first pic below is a huge image of Baphomet, a pagan deity that, since the 19th century, has become a figure or synonym of Satan.

The humanoid goat Baphomet figure was first drawn and popularized in 1854 by occultist Eliphas Lévi. In his book, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (“Dogmas and Rituals of High Magic”), Lévi included an image he had drawn himself which he described as Baphomet and “The Sabbatic Goat” — showing a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on its head between its horns. Levi called his image “The Goat of Mendes.” Lévi’s Baphomet is the source of the later Tarot image of the Devil, in the Rider-Waite design. The symbol of the goat in the downward-pointed pentagram was adopted as the official symbol — called the Sigil of Baphomet — of the Church of Satan, and continues to be used among Satanists. [Source: Wikipedia]

Here are pics of Rothschild wearing pendants that are more stylized or abstract versions of the Baphomet:

The goat’s or ram’s horns

Rothschild wearing a pendant of a stylized Baphomet goat’s horns, with her second husband, Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais

Here’s a gallery of 4 pics showing Rothschild wearing the Baphomet pendant from its most literal to more abstract representations. Remember that this woman is one of the wealthiest people on Earth who can wear any piece of jewelry she desires, but again and again she chooses to wear these big ugly Satanic pendants on big, heavy, gold chain necklaces.

Here’s a younger Rothschild wearing a pendant of an angel silhouette (remember that Lucifer and the other demons are fallen angels!). It’s interesting that as she grows older, she’s become bolder and more in-your-face with her Satanic jewelry, now wearing unmistakably Baphomet pendants as the one in the first pic above:

Here’s a pic of a bottle of red wine from one of her wineries, Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Note the serpent; the words “cou cou” (which is French for “neck neck”) coming out of the mouth of the bodiless head in top right; the headless female figure below the serpent on the left; and the glass of red liquid (wine or blood?) right below “cou cou”:

I leave you to draw your own conclusions….

UPDATE (Aug. 26, 20140:

Philippine de Rothschild died on August 23, 2014, at age 80 in Paris “from the effects of a serious operation,” according to her family. One can’t help but wonder if she finally got to meet the creature whom she so idolized that she wore his image as a pendant in one after another of her many grotesque heavy gold necklaces.